Trinidad and Tobago

I gaze at the sandstone dancer, impaled for all time. She is nameless, and in this vacant gallery, I might as…

Uncle wasn’t really my uncle. He was a Jamaican man who ran the laundromat down the street. My Trinidadian parents,…

Boy-chirren different. A daughter will always be yours, but boy-child come like guava: brace yourself; it might have worm. My…

Hear nuh man. Everybody know that it have two type a mango that is the best mango to eat. The…

When my father says that I’m almost as handsome as him outside in midday heat with mirthful eyes and a…

There’s a place I knew where my mother planted trees and children. All took root. The trees grew tall, straight,…

‘Hunger’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.   Three months after the breakup, you meet Paquito. Well,…

‘English at the End of Time’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.   Evening lingered among neem…

Home is, I suppose, just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place…

'Finger, Spinster, Serial Killer' was shortlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  

‘Oats’ was shortlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  

'Passage' won the overall 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for the Caribbean.

'The Boss' was shortlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. View the full shortlist here.

Ophelia's words are sprinkling, tinkling in my ears. They smell like cut grass just washed with rain. I want to…

The role of Gardener passes from one woman to another in this story. The first I encountered — I thought…

Samson Street was a dead end. But it came alive the day of Tantie Lucy’s Thanksgiving service for Saxxy.